Author: Adventures

Thursday was a really tough day! I felt empty and just out of it on our prayer walk to Bangla Road during the day so i knew that ministry that night was going to be so difficult for me. However, when we got there that evening it turned into something really great and beautiful. Very first thing that happened was prayer, we stopped and knelt on the ground before entering satans playground and just prayed for encouragement. As we prayed a 12 year old girl selling an arm full of flowers names Cola walked up to us and said, "Phra Yesu" which means Jesus. She told...

This week, we met with Mark Biddell for our one month debrief.  He bought us ice cream, and we asked him our questions.  A couple of the girls admitted feelings of burn out, to which Mark responded “You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time.”  It took everything in me not to burst into a mixture of laughter and tears.             In my conversations with God this week, I have been questioning the efficacy of my ministry here.  I know that I know that I KNOW that God sent me here for a purpose, but...

So there are currently seven Thai women working at the SHE center. A number of them have children, and the ones that are three and under are taken care of at the center during the week day. The older ones attend school just down the road. Of course, they are the cause of many smiles among all of us here. I think it's awesome that the women working here can have their children so close, and of course that we can enjoy having munchkins around. One more tragedy that many of the women still working in Patong have to deal with is that their children are often hundreds or thousands of...